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World Cup Opener 2023 Long: Maps, Results and Analysis

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After nearly 90 minutes of orienteering in tough terrain only seconds separated the top runners in both the men’s and women’s class in the long distance opening this year’s World Cup. Last years’ winners of the overall World Cup, Tove Alexandersson (SWE) and Kasper Fosser (NOR), had the margins on ...

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World Cup Opening 2023: All You Need To Know

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The first Orienteering World Cup Round of 2023 is about to begin in Østfold, Norway, as the world’s best athletes gather from Thursday April 27th until Sunday April 30th for a Long distance race on Thursday, a Middle distance race on Saturday and a Relay race on Sunday. The races will ...

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Lucky voters: Check if you won fantastic prizes!

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New Year’s Gift: Check here if you are one of winners of the 22 prizes worth more than 4000 Euros in total in your voting or nomination for “The Orienteering Course of 2022″!  To all winners: Please try to bring as many friends as possible to the event you won a prize ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 24 2022

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The final leg in this 16th edition of Route to Christmas 2022 is a quite special long leg from the European Championships Long distance in Estonia. While the runners where allowed to cross the river wherever they wanted (at least some of the runners were aware of this during the race, but ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 23 2022

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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2022 is leg 11 from the long distance race of the Aguiar da Beira Orienteering Meeting (ABOM) 2022 in Portugal. Thanks a lot to Rafael Miguel for the tip! According to Rafael, the ABOM 2022 long distance race was a tough long distance in very ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 22 2022

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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2022 is from the European Championships Middle distance in Estonia this summer. This was a very interesting race, with many mistakes being done in the dense, tricky forest. Thanks again to Arild Andersen for the tip! The chosen leg is the 6th leg in the ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 21 2022

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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2022 is a very interesting relay leg from alpine terrain in Switzerland. The leg we take a look at this time is the long leg to the 8th control in the women’s relay at the World Cup final in Davos-Klosters. Thanks again to Arild Andersen for ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 20 2022

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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2022 is another leg from the Czech Championships Long distance – we again travel to exciting sandstone terrain. While we looked at a quite short leg last time, we now turn our eyes to the long leg to the 11th control. The leg is as usually first ...

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